has created a class of traveller who stays for months rather than days.
Thirty countries now offer a designed for them.
The attraction for the host city is straightforward.
These visitors earn abroad and spend locally, usually outside the tourist season.
They fill cafes on weekday mornings and language schools in the evening.
The complication arrives in the housing market.
A foreign salary can local wages for the same flat.
convert long lets into short ones, and rise for residents.
Lisbon and Mexico City have both seen protests on exactly this point.
Some cities now limit short lets by district or require .
Others tax the and spend the money on housing supply.
The second approach treats the arrivals as a resource rather than a threat.
It works only where the city builds enough to absorb them.